139477 - UW IMAP: Cannot delete a mail Folder in IMAP.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 119630

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Matt Roca]

Get error message:  "The current command did not succeed.  The mail server 
responded: RENAME failed: Can't create mailbox node /home/meroca/Mail/Trash/: 
File exists."

On the server-side, we are using the standard U-Washington IMAP server, and we 
are able to delete folders on many different IMAP clients, including Outlook 
Express, Eudora, PINE, and Pegasus.

Comment 1

[Karen Huang]

What is your IMAP server directly? Can you attach a screen shot of your Advanced 
IMAP Server Settings info here? Thanks.
Or, are you trying to delete a folder name which already existing in Trash 
folder?

Comment 2

[Matt Roca]

I am using the IMAP standard server from Washington University, the people that
created the IMAP protocol. (http://www.washington.edu/imap/).
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-2001a.tar.Z

There is no "Advanced IMAP Server Settings".  This is a standard compile of the
UWashington IMAP server.

Basically, if you create a "mailbox" called "Trash", you are creating a standard
file on the unix IMAP server which can contain messages.  A mailbox/file cannot
contain another mailbox, and cannot contain sub-folders.  If you create a
containing folder by naming the folder "folder-container/", the folder cannot
contain messages, it can only contain other mailboxes.

Comment 3

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

dup of bug 119630?

Comment 4

[Matt Roca]

There appears to be a fix for this..  If you go into Mail & News Account
Settings, under Server Settings: Advanced, uncheck the "Server supports folders
that contain sub-folders and messages".  Deleting folders will then work
properly.  Suggest making that option 'off' by default.

Comment 5

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Marking this as a duplicate. If you thaink that's an error, please reopen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119630 ***

Comment 6

[Karen Huang]

Verified as dup.